2014 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)

Vehicular networking and communication systems is an area of significant importance in our increasingly connected and mobile world. Effective vehicular connectivity techniques can significantly enhance efficiency of travel, reduce traffic incidents and improve safety, mitigate the impact of congestion, and overall provide a more comfortable experience. Towards this goal, the 2014 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicular networking technologies, and their applications.

IEEE VNC 2015

Next year's VNC conference will be hosted in Kyoto, Japan. Onur Altintas, Toyota ITC, and Frank Kargl, Ulm University, will serve as general co-chairs. More details on location and committees will be announced soon on this page.

Keynote speakers

P. R. Kumar

P. R. Kumar holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His current research is focused on energy systems, wireless networks, secure networking, automated transportation, and cyberphysical systems. He obtained his B. Tech. from IIT Madras, and his D.Sc. from Washington University, St. Louis. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA, and a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the ETH, Zurich. He received the Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society. He is an ACM Fellow and a Fellow of IEEE. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St. Louis, and the Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad, and a D. J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay.

Katrin Sjöberg

Katrin Sjöberg is a connected vehicle technology specialist at Advanced Technology & Research, Volvo Group Trucks Technology in Sweden. For over a decade, she has been working in the field of wireless communication and her research interests range from channel modeling to applications for vehicular networks. She is very active in the CAR 2 CAR Communication Consortium (C2C-CC) and in the European standardization on cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) within ETSI Technical Committee on ITS (ETSI TC ITS). In April 2013, she defended her PhD thesis entitled "Medium Access Control for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks".